SimVar provides a PROFILE command, which allows you – or FSX, to be precise – to remember things. Think of a profile setting as a sticky-note with a name, which you can refer back to later. Most simply, you can set a profile value with a known meaning, such as “Route 1” or “Route 2”. Here's where the powerful part comes in: you can then use that profile value in most SimVar commands later in the mission. How would that look? Let's think about the changing messages.
Well, SimVar gets round this by letting you tell AI planes to fly to a point relative to the player, and even to try and stay there. That means you can have a 'wingman' in your missions; maybe an instructor, or a guide, or a border patrol plane which follows you as you weave around trying to lose it.
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